PINNIPEDIA, RODENTIA. 
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/a resume of the recent literature of the subject*, and treats of 
' the affinities and characters of this group. In a conspectus he 
admits six out of the fifteen species proposed; and these are referred 
to five genera. He describes in detail Otaria stelleri from two 
skins and two skeletons, Otaria gillespii from two skulls, Otaria 
ursina from several examples. Capt. Bryant^s account of the 
habits and modes of capture of the last species is most inter- 
esting, and contains some startling observations. The plates 
Xi’eprcsent skulls and the dentition of O. stelleri and O. ursina. 
Otaria. Dr. G, A. Manck gives an account of his expedition to the eastern 
coast of South America, to obtain examples of O. leonina and O.falklandica, 
Zool. Gart. 1870, pp. 1-8. A male of the former is figured. 
Otaria jithata occurs as far north as Zorritos in Peru. A. E. V[errill]. 
Sillim. Journ. 1870, 1. p. 431. 
Trichechiis rosmarus. On the want of direct connexion between the 
diaphragm and pericardium. Turner, Journ. Anat. & Physiol, v. 1870, 
p. 115. — A Labrador specimen described and figured by Gilpin, Proc. & Trans. 
N. Scot. Inst. Nat. Sc. ii. 3, 1870, pp. 123-127. 
'^hocidoi. A. Quennerstedt has published notes on Phoca harhata, P. groen- 
landica and Cystophora, especially with regard to their distribution, occur- 
rence, habits, and mode of capture, Svensk. Vet. Ak. Ilandl. vii. 18G8. He 
figures the young of P. yrcenlandica, Taf. 1. fig. 1, P. harhata, fig. 2, and the 
young and male of Cystophora on Taf. 2. 
Phoca groc7ilandica. Notes on its modes of progression and its anatomy, 
Murie, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. G04-G08, pi. 32. 
Phoca hispida. Remains of a Seal found in the brick-clays of various 
parts of Scotland are referred by Prof Turner to this species, which does not 
visit the British Islands at the present period f. Journ. Anat. & Physiol, 
iv. 1870, pp. 2G0-270, with woodcuts. 
Phoca. On the Seal of the islands off the north-western coast of the Cape 
Colony as an article of trade, and on the preparation of the furs, E. Heritte; 
Bull. Acclim. 1870, pp. 5G0-6G5. 
Halichocrus grypiis captured on the Scotch coast. Turner, Journ. Ajiat. & 
Physiol. 1870, p. 270. 
Stcnorhynchus Icptonyx common on the coasts of Now Zealand, Hector, 
Ann. & Mag. N. II. 1870, v. p. 220. — Described from New-Zealand specimens. 
J. S.Webb, Tr. N. Z. Inst. ii. 1870, pp. 28-32. — On a (probably new) variety of 
the Small-nailed Seal, allied to the Phoca leopardina of Jameson. Ch. Fraser, 
Tr. N. Z. Inst. ii. 1870, p. 33. 
Rodentia. 
Prof. IIyrtl has found a spiral valve in the vena portae of 
all families of Rodents. SB. Ak. Wien, Ixi. pp. 27-32, plate. 
j 4 * Mr. Allen (p, 12) states that in the Zool. Record for 18G8 Dr. Gunther 
had regarded M‘Bain’s O. ulloce ? as a new species, and proposed for it the 
I name of Arctoccphahis grayi. This is a mistake, which would have been 
\ avoided by reading M‘Bain’s paper ; M'Bain himself proposed this name. 
\ t [Its occurrence on the English coast, in 184G, has since been announced 
\ by Prof. Flower to the Zoological Society, June \S71{cf. Tr. Norw. Soc. 1871, 
\p. 77 ).-Ed.] 
